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sham
Overview of noun sham
The noun sham has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) fake, sham, postiche -- (something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be)
2. imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player -- (a person who makes deceitful pretenses)
Overview of verb sham
The verb sham has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. simulate, assume, sham, feign -- (make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep")
2. feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble -- (make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache")
Overview of adj sham
The adj sham has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham -- (adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
fake, sham, postiche
=> imitation, counterfeit, forgery
=> copy
=> representation
=> creation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
=> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
fake, sham, postiche
=> fake book
Sense 2
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
=> name dropper
=> ringer
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
fake, sham, postiche
=> imitation, counterfeit, forgery
Sense 2
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
=> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
Antonyms of noun sham
Member Holonyms of noun sham
Substance Holonyms of noun sham
Part Holonyms of noun sham
Member Meronyms of noun sham
Substance Meronyms of noun sham
Part Meronyms of noun sham
Meronyms of noun sham
Holonyms of noun sham
Attributes of noun sham
Derived Forms of noun sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
fake, sham, postiche
RELATED TO>(verb) sham#2
=> feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
Sense 2
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
RELATED TO>(verb) sham#1
=> simulate, assume, sham, feign
Domain of noun sham
Domain Terms of noun sham
Familiarity of noun sham
sham used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
fake, sham, postiche
> imitation, counterfeit, forgery
=> fake, sham, postiche
Sense 2
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
=> bluffer, four-flusher
=> swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter
=> decoy, steerer
=> dodger, fox, slyboots
=> double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor
=> embezzler, defalcator, peculator
=> falsifier
=> finagler, wangler
=> forger, counterfeiter
=> fortune hunter
=> front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
=> hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender
=> impersonator, imitator
=> imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
=> liar, prevaricator
=> misleader
=> mountebank, charlatan
=> obscurantist
=> sandbagger
=> two-timer
=> utterer
Meronyms of noun sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
fake, sham, postiche
=> imitation, counterfeit, forgery
=> copy
=> representation
=> creation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 2
imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
=> deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
=> wrongdoer, offender
=> bad person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun sham
Grep of noun sham
gresham
pillow sham
sham
shaman
shamanism
shamash
shamble
shambles
shambling
shame
shame plant
shamefacedness
shamefulness
shamelessness
shamisen
shammer
shammy
shammy leather
shampoo
shamrock
shamrock pea
shamus
sir thomas gresham
sisham
tarabulus ash-sham
Antonyms of verb sham
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
simulate, assume, sham, feign
=> dissemble, pretend, act
Sense 2
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
=> misrepresent, belie
=> represent
=> express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
simulate, assume, sham, feign
=> play
=> feint
Sense 2
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
=> play possum
=> take a dive
=> bullshit, bull, fake
=> mouth
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
simulate, assume, sham, feign
=> dissemble, pretend, act
Sense 2
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
=> misrepresent, belie
'Cause To' of verb sham
Derived Forms of verb sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
simulate, assume, sham, feign
RELATED TO>(noun) sham#2
=> imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
RELATED TO>(noun) shammer#1
=> malingerer, skulker, shammer
RELATED TO>(noun) shammer#2
=> imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
Sense 2
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
RELATED TO>(noun) sham#1
=> fake, sham, postiche
RELATED TO>(noun) shammer#1
=> malingerer, skulker, shammer
RELATED TO>(noun) shammer#2
=> imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
Domain of verb sham
Domain Terms of verb sham
Familiarity of verb sham
sham used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
simulate, assume, sham, feign
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
*> Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb sham
2 senses of sham
Sense 1
simulate, assume, sham, feign
> dissemble, pretend, act
=> simulate, assume, sham, feign
Sense 2
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
> misrepresent, belie
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> falsify, distort, garble, warp
=> feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb sham
Sense 1
simulate, assume, sham, feign
=> dissemble, pretend, act
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Sense 2
feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
=> misrepresent, belie
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Grep of verb sham
sham
shamanise
shamanize
shamble
shame
shampoo
Antonyms of adj sham
1 sense of sham
Sense 1
assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
INDIRECT (VIA counterfeit) -> genuine, echt
Similarity of adj sham
1 sense of sham
Sense 1
assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
=> counterfeit (vs. genuine), imitative
Pertainyms of adj sham
Attributes of adj sham
Domain of adj sham
Domain Terms of adj sham
Familiarity of adj sham
sham used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj sham
sham
shamanist
shamanistic
shambolic
shamed
shamefaced
shameful
shameless
Grep of adv sham
shambolically
shamefacedly
shamefully
shamelessly
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